Musings: Plant-based diets would help climate
Plant-based diets avoid traumatizing, and killing animals for protein, and has the potential to make a huge difference to human health, a reader writes. Credit: iStock
Factory farming, the practice of intensive agriculture focused on maximizing livestock and crop production and prioritizing profits over animal welfare, environmental sustainability, human health, and local economies, is a leading contributor to climate change, and it’s destroying the world as we know it.
The need to change is urgent. We have to care, and we must act. Fortunately, we have the power and opportunity to effectively address the problem simply by adopting a plant-based diet, reducing our reliance on animal products.
Plant-based options abound, so there is no need to continue warehousing, traumatizing, and killing animals for protein, and switching to plants has the potential to make a huge difference, resulting in improved human health, sparing animal suffering, and ultimately addressing climate change.
It’s time to take a stand and make choices that contribute to a more sustainable and compassionate world. We can all do our part to make a difference.
— Nathan Daniels, Melville
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